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Italian For Children: Books and Materials L’italiano per Bambini This
is a compilation of some books and materials to facilitate the instruction of
the Italian language as well as Italian and Italian American culture to
children. These materials can be
obtained through most bookstores (Barnes & Noble, Borders, etc.). These materials would make a great
gift from a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, or anyone. Be sure to ask for other books and
materials and check the public library for their holdings. This
list will be updated as new information becomes available. Your suggestions are welcomed by
writing to gclaroni@forbin.qc.edu. More
information and materials are listed on the page entitled Educational
Materials for Teachers of the Italian Language. KITS: Italian
Language Pack (story
book, audio cassette, flash cards, picture dictionary) By
Berlitz Kids (ISBN – 2831562260) ACTIVITY BOOKS: Let’s Learn:
Italian Coloring Book by Anne Francoise
Hazzan (Passport Books) (ISBN - 0844280607) My World in
Italian: Coloring Book and Picture Dictionary by Tamara Mealer
(Passport Books) (ISBN - 0844280674) Italian
Picture Word Book by Hayward
Circker (Dover Publications) (ISBN - 0486282023) Italian Fun by Catherine
Bruzzone (Passport Books) (ISBN - 0844280798) Italian Girl
and Boy Paper Dolls by Kathy Allert
(Dover Publications) (ISBN - 0486274616) Longman
Italian Workbooks: An Italian
Fun Book by Terry Hawkin
(Longman Group) (ISBN - 0582202728) Longman
Italian Workbooks: Italian
Puzzles by Terry Hawkin
(Longman Group) (ISBN – 058220271x) Word Search in
Italian: Part I by Carlo Sclafani
(Efficiency Press) {telephone (914) 785 6790} Word Search in
Italian: Part II by Carlo Sclafani
(Efficiency Press) {telephone (914) 785 6790} Easy Italian
Crossword Puzzles by Nancy Parato
Goldhagen (Passport Books) L’Italiano con
le Parole Crociate by European
Language Institute L’Italiano con
le Parole Crociate: Volume II by European
Language Institute L’Italiano? Sì, Grazie by European
Language Institute L’Italiano? Sì, Grazie: Volume II
by European
Language Institute Italy: A Literature Based Multicultural Unit by Betsy Franco
(Evan-Moor Publications) (ISBN - 1557993815) Let’s Learn
About Italy by Sacha de
Frisching (Passport Books) (ISBN - 0844280615) Italian for
Children (activity book
and audio cassette) by Catherine
Bruzzone (Passport Books) (ISBN – 084429313x) Italy: A Cultural Resource Guide by Ellen Dolan
(Milliken Publishing Company) (ISBN – 078770041x) Italy: Country Topics for Craft Projects by Patricia
Borlenghi and Rachel Wright (Franklin Watts) (ISBN - 0531152766) Italian
Vocabulary Cards by Visual
Education Association (ISBN - 1556370105) Pinocchio Coloring Book
(the classic Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi)
by Simon Galkin
(Dover Publications) (ISBN - 0486280039) Pinocchio Stickers (the
classic Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi)
by Thea Kliros (Dover Publications Inc.)
(ISBN – 0486293173) AUDIO CASSETTES: Teach Me
Italian by Teach Me
Tapes, Inc. (ISBN - 0934633576) Teach Me More
Italian by Judy Mahoney
(Teach Me Tapes, Inc.) (ISBN - 0934633630) Berlitz Jr.
Italian (storybook and
audio cassette) by Aladdin Books
(ISBN - 0689715951) Italian for
Children (activity book
and audio cassette) by Catherine Bruzzone
(Passport Books) (ISBN – 084429313x) Lyric
Language: Italian (audio cassette) by Penton
Overseas (ISBN - 1560154373) Lyric
Language: More Italian (audio cassette) by Penton
Overseas (ISBN - 1560154411) Listen and
Learn a Language: Italian, Italiano
(bilingual songs) by Twin Sister
Productions (ISBN - 1882331370) The Missing
Cat, Adventures with Nicholas, Italian by Berlitz Kids
(ISBN - 2831557135) A Visit to
Grandma, Adventures with Nicholas, Italian by Berlitz Kids
(ISBN - 2831562511) Beginners Italian: Language Learning with a Beat
by Penton
Overseas (ISBN - 1560154527) LinguaFun:
Language Learning Card Games - Italian by Penton
Overseas (ISBN - 1560156015) Learn Italian
Together: An Activity Kit for
Kids by Living
Language, A Random House Company (ISBN – 060960211x) Learn Italian
in the Car (activity kit)
by Living
Language, A Random House Company (ISBN – 0609602128) Learn Italian
in the Kitchen (activity
kit) by Living
Language, A Random House Company (ISBN – 0609602160) VIDEO CASSETTES: Lyric
Language: Italian (video cassette) by Penton
Overseas (ISBN - 1560154373) Lyric
Language: More Italian (video cassette) by Penton
Overseas (ISBN - 1560154411) CD
ROMS: The Ultimate
Multimedia Italian Vocabulary Program by National
Textbook Company, (800) 323-4900, www.ntc-school.com Breakthrough
Italian: Interactive CD-ROM by National
Textbook Company, (800) 323-4900, www.ntc-school.com Smart Start -
Italian by Syracuse Language (ISBN - 0871777932) Lyric Language by Penton
Overseas, (800) 748-5804, www.pentonoverseas.com In Italiano 1 distributed by
Trans Global Books, (718) 381-0509, www.transglobalbooks.com In Italiano 2 distributed by
Trans Global Books, (718) 381-0509, www.transglobalbooks.com Italiano
Interattivo distributed by
Trans Global Books, (718) 381-0509, www.transglobalbooks.com Parlo Italiano distributed by
Trans Global Books, (718) 381-0509, www.transglobalbooks.com PICTURE DICTIONARIES - DICTIONARIES: Let’s
Learn: Italian Picture
Dictionary by Passport Books
(ISBN - 0844280658) The First
Thousand Words in Italian
by Amery, DiBello
and Cartwright (Usborne Publishing) (ISBN - 0860207684) Picture
Dictionary: Italian-English by Langenscheidt
Publications (ISBN - 0887298591) Il Libro dell’
A B C by Richard Scarry
(Mondadori Publications) Beginner’s
Italian Dictionary by H. Davies
(Usborne Publishing) (ISBN - 0746007647) Beginning
Italian Bilingual Dictionary
by Lipton and
Colaneri (Barron’s Publications) (ISBN - 0812042727) My World in Italian:
Coloring Book and Picture Dictionary
by Tamara Mealer
(Passport Books) (ISBN – 0844280674) Just Look ‘n
Learn Italian Picture Dictionary
by National
Textbook Company Children’s
Illustrated Italian Dictionary
by Hippocrene
Books (ISBN - 0781807719) CALENDARS: Italian Word
Each Day by Language
Calendars (ISBN – 157897142x) Italian Phrase
Each Day by Language
Calendars (ISBN - 1578971454) Italian Idiom
Each Day by Language
Calendars (ISBN - 1578971446) Italian Words,
Phrases, Idioms and Verb Conjugation Each Day by Language
Calendars (ISBN - 1578971462) ITALIAN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION: Berlitz Jr.
Italian (storybook and
audio cassette) by Aladdin Books
(ISBN - 0689715951) Italian for
Children (activity book
and audio cassette) by Catherine
Bruzzone (Passport Books) (ISBN – 084429313x) Italian for
Beginners: Passport Language
Guides by Angela Wilkes
(National Textbook Co.) (ISBN - 0844280593) Getting
Started in Italian by Clare Jenkins
(Passport Books) (ISBN - 0844280461) Si Scrive Così by Constance Anne
Barbantini (National Textbook Co.) (ISBN - 0844280356) Parliamo
L’Italiano: Serie vol. 1-5 by Silvana Perini
(Giunti Marzocco) (ISBN – 880900034x) (ISBN - 8809000358) Beginner’s
Italian Reader by Daniel Rolfs
(National Textbook Company) Dialoghi
Simpatici by Carlo Graziano
(National Textbook Company) Getting to
Know Italy and Italian by Emma Sansone
(Barron’s Publications) (ISBN - 0812015347) STORYBOOKS: Count Your Way
Through Italy by Jim Haskins
(Carolrhoda Books) (ISBN - 0876154330) A Family in
Italy by Penny and John
Hubley (Lerner Publications Company) (ISBN – 082251673x) My Home in
Italy by Donna Bailey
(Steck-Vaughn Company) (ISBN - 0811443930) Journey Through Italy by Colin Clark
(TrollAssociates) (ISBN - 0816727643) Getting to
Know Italy by Cinzia
Mariella (Passport Books) (ISBN - 0844280747) Totò in Italy by Biddy Strevens
(Passport Books) (ISBN - 0844292893) Anatole in
Italy by Eve Titus
(McGraw Hill Book Co.) (ISBN - 0070648964) Strega Nona by Tomie de Paola
(Aladdin Paperbacks) (ISBN - 0671666061) Strega Nona,
Her Story by Tomie de Paola (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
(ISBN - 0399228187) Strega Nona’s
Magic Lessons by Tomie de Paola (Voyager Books) (ISBN
– 0152817867) Strega Nona
Meets Her Match by Tomie de Paola (Putnam & Grosset
Group) (ISBN - 0698114116) Merry
Christmas, Strega Nona by Tomie de Paola (Voyager Books) (ISBN
– 015253184x) The Legend of
Old Befana by Tomie de Paola
(Voyager Books) (ISBN - 0152438173) The Clown of
God by Tomie de Paola
(Voyager Books) (ISBN - 0156181924) Jingle the
Christmas Clown by Tomie de Paola (Putnam & Grosset
Group) (ISBN - 0698116690) Tony’s Bread by Tomie de Paola (Putnam & Grosset
Group) (ISBN - 0698113713) Big Anthony
and the Magic Ring by Tomie de Paola
(Voyager Books) (ISBN - 0156119072) The Mysterious
Giant of Barletta: An Italian
Folktale by Tomie de Paola
(Voyager Books) (ISBN - 0152563490) The Baby
Sister by Tomie de Paola
(G.P. Putnam’s Sons) (ISBN - 0399229086) Pages of Music by Tomie de Paola
(G.P. Putnam’s Sons) (ISBN - 0399214364) Days of the
Blackbird: A Tale of Northern
Italy by Tomie de Paola
(G.P. Putnam’s Sons) (ISBN - 0399229299) Silver at
Night by Susan Campbell
Bartoletti (Crown Publishers) (ISBN - 0517594269) American Too by Elisa Bartone
(Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books) (ISBN - 0688132782) Peppe: The Lamplighter by Elisa Bartone
(Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books) (ISBN - 0688102689) Papa
Gatto: an Italian Fairy Tale by Ruth Sanderson
(Little, Brown and Company) (ISBN - 0316771120) Favorite Fairy
tales Told in Italy by Virginia
Haviland (Beech Tree Books) (ISBN - 0688125999) Italian Fairy
Tales by Lilia E.
Romano (Hippocrene Books, Inc.) (ISBN - 0781807026) The Thread of
Life: Twelve Old Italian Tales by Domenico
Vittorini (Crown Publishers Inc.) (ISBN – 051759594x) Petrosinella: A Neapolitan Rapunzel by Diane Stanley
(Puffin Books) (ISBN - 0140554912) Poems From
Italy by William J.
Smith (Thomas Y. Crowell Co.) (ISBN - 0690639155) Antonio’s Apprenticeship: Painting a Fresco in Renaissance
Italy by Taylor
Morrison (Holiday House) (ISBN – 082341213x) Sandro the
Painter by Ellen Dolan
(Adam & Charles Black) Waiting for
Fillippo by Michael Bender
(Pavilion Books) (ISBN - 1857937651) Harlequin and
the Green Dress by Letizia Galli
(Doubleday Delacorte Press) (ISBN - 0385310730) Starry
Messenger: Galileo Galilei by Peter Sis
(Frances Foster Books) (ISBN - 0374371911) Bono &
Nonno by Judy Lanfredi
(Tambourine Books) (ISBN - 0688132332) NON
FICTION: The Italian
Americans by J. Philip Di
Franco (Chelsea House Publishers) (ISBN - 0791002683) Italians in
America by Ronald P.
Grossman (Lerner Publications Company) (ISBN - 0822510405) Italian
Americans by Carolyn Kott
Washburne (Marshall Cavendish) (ISBN - 1854357840) Italian
American Ways by Fred L.
Gardaphe (Harper & Row) (ISBN - 0060963379) The Italian
American Family Handbook by Dorothy and
Thomas Hoobler (Oxford University Press) (ISBN - 0195091248) Student’s
Guide to Italian American Genealogy
by Terra
Castiglia Brockman (Oryx Press) (ISBN - 0897749731) Getting to
Know the World’s Greatest Artists:
Da Vinci by Mike Venezia
(Childrens Press) (ISBN - 0516422758) Getting to
Know the World’s Greatest Artists:
Michelangelo by
Mike Venezia (Childrens Press) (ISBN - 0516422936) Getting to
Know the World’s Greatest Artists:
Botticelli by
Mike Venezia (Childrens Press) (ISBN – 051642291x) Christmas in
Italy by
Kristin Thoennes (Bridgestone Books) (ISBN - 0736800905) Christmas in
Italy by
World Book, Inc., (ISBN - 0716608774) Christmas in
Italy by
Corrine Ross (Passport Books) (ISBN - 0844280712) BOOK
STORES: Rizzoli
Bookstore, there are several locations in Manhattan, (800) 522-6657 S.F. Vanni
Italian Bookstore, Manhattan, (212) 675-6336 Galapagos Foreign
Language Bookstore, Hastings-on-Hudson, (914) 478-2501 Barnes and Noble,
www.barnesandnoble.com Borders, www.borders.com Amazon.com, www.amazon.com PUBLISHERS: Passport Books
and National Textbook Company, (800) 323-4900, www.ppbooks.com, and www.ntc-school.com Langenscheidt
Publications, (800) 432-6277, www.langenscheidt.com Penton Overseas,
Inc., (800) 748-5804, www.pentonoverseas.com Language
Calendars, (800) 560-7712, www.languagecalendars.com WEBSITES: Cyber Italian
– Interactive Education -
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